Somehow I hadn't (knowingly) seen the pronoun icon before now, but somehow I've seen it multiple times today.
https://pronouns.design/
That's sorta neat.
Firehose access on Bluesky gets shut off for Bridgy Fed for a while https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3094 https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1520#issuecomment-2492534380
Not malicious, but what's notable here is that Bridgy Fed was unable to work w/ Bluesky during this period. I think @mcc is right that it's a reminder this is a result of centralization https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113541216191108214
Billionaire politics; "philanthropy"
@researchfairy Philanthropy is actually a genius marketing term for creating or capturing institutions governing people's lives and instrumentalising them to operate as you see fit and usually for your ultimate benefit.
It makes wresting people's self-determination away sound so benevolent.
obscure life lesson
@joepie91 who would win: a WAF that costs 400 USD a month, or two bored teenagers
re: obscure life lesson
@joepie91 Relatedly, surprising amount of internet far-right movements turn out to be headed up by some aggrieved fourteen year old.
With PHP 8.4 release last week, here is your annual reminder:
Symfony and Laravel have a massive core team, with lots of PHP internals connections, that set an unrealistically high bar for being compatible with new PHP versions.
Don't expect single-maintainer teams to be anywhere close to this without getting outside help in some way.
Run a library's testsuite on PHP 8.4, sponsor some money, whatever. Just don't expect them to simply support PHP 8.4 from day 0.
Press attention for the surveillance camera walk https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%20Vander%20Vennet/diary/405672
@monk I don't know what to do with this question.
an example of a "social rule" in the terminal is that if you have a noninteractive program, you can generally expect that `Ctrl-C` will stop it, programs can do whatever they want but it would just be kind of rude for a noninteractive program to not respect `Ctrl-C`
(there are different social expectations around how to quit interactive programs)
I haven't totally sold myself yet on this "what are the secret rules of the terminal?” framing but it feels like a reasonable way to talk about how, even though “the terminal” is a lot of separate things working together, it "feels" like a cohesive environment that has a lot of rules that you can generally expect to be true.
Some of those rules are Unchangeable Facts and some of them are just Vague Social Rules but understanding the vague social rules is just as important as knowing The Facts.
Mistodon: @teksttv has drawn a #teletext adaptation of Charles O'Rear's Sonoma vineyard photograph 'Bliss', famously used as the default wallpaper for #WindowsXP & likely the most viewed photograph in human history. This screen was included in the MIST1121 artpack collection.
Generative models are not remotely close to being good enough to match even the most mediocre local news production
This is likely a regional monopoly (or duopoly at best) for local news. If you have a lock on the market and don't have to worry about regulators the easiest way to juice profits is to destroy labour
This is intentional scuttling the product to make more money because they know that neither the workforce nor the consumer have any recourse
This is what generative models are for
feedback over waarom het misschien niet verspeid wordt, indien gewenst
@heleenkuiper Ik had deze zelf nog niet eerder gezien, maar ik heb wel wat concrete suggesties over hoe dit soort dingen aan te kondigen zodat ze ook beter verspreid worden:
1. Er is momenteel geen alt text, en een hoop mensen op Mastodon retooten dingen simpelweg niet zonder alt text uit principe, omdat het een deel van de gemeenschap buitensluit. Dus dat kan een reden zijn.
2. Het is uit de poster niet echt duidelijk wat het doel is, of zelfs wat de insteek is; een feest, een protestmars, alleen een ontmoetingsplek, iets anders? Dat kan mensen afschrikken, want dan is het maar de vraag of het meer dan symboolpolitiek is.
3. Uiteindelijk moeten mensen er ook vertrouwen in hebben dat het evenement bij kan dragen aan een oplossing. Nu weet ik niet wie de 'politiek bewuste mastodonners' in je toot precies zijn, maar veel mensen die ik ken zouden direct afknappen op de framing dat het probleem 'polarisatie' is, aldus de website (ik heb het even opgezocht), omdat we ons er maar wat van bewust zijn dat dat meestal een opzetje is om te doen alsof er geen systemische discriminatie in het spel is.
Dit alles is niet per se bedoeld als kritiek op het evenement, voor de duidelijkheid, meer als 'ondertiteling' van waarom het hier misschien niet zoveel vaart loopt. In mijn ervaring gaat het verspreiden een stuk beter met heel concrete aankondigingen a la "er is probleem X, we gaan ding Y doen, kom naar plek Z op die en die tijd".
(Overigens lijkt het evenement inmiddels vol te zitten dus is aanmelden om erbij te zijn sowieso niet meer mogelijk, maar dat is weer een ander verhaal.)
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.